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Clarence Victor GrimmettBorn: 25 December 1891, Caversham, Dunedin, Otago, New ZealandDied: 2 May 1980, Kensington Park, Adelaide, South Australia Major Teams: Wellington, Victoria, South Australia, Australia. Known As: Clarrie Grimmett Batting Style: Right Hand Bat Bowling Style: Leg Break Googly Test Debut: Australia v England at Sydney, 5th Test, 1924/25 Last Test: Australia v South Africa at Durban, 5th Test, 1935/36 Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1931 Career Statistics:TESTS (career) M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St Batting & Fielding 37 50 10 557 50 13.92 0 1 17 0 Balls M R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ Bowling 14513 736 5231 216 24.21 7-40 21 7 67.1 2.16 FIRST-CLASS (career: 1911/12 - 1940/41) M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St Batting & Fielding 248 321 54 4720 71* 17.67 0 12 140 0 R W Ave BBI 5 10 Bowling 31738 1424 22.28 10-37 127 33 - Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS. StatsGuru Filters for Clarrie GrimmettArticles about Clarrie GrimmettPictures of Clarrie GrimmettProfile:Born on Christmas Day in Dunedin, New Zealand, Clarrie Grimmett went to Australia in 1914 for a short holiday that turned out to last 66 years. Starting in Sydney, where due to the presence of Arthur Mailey he was unable to break into the NSW team, he moved to Victoria (where he played a few Shield games), and eventually to South Australia. He was a short wiry man who bowled from a few paces. He rarely bowled the googly as he was reluctant to toss the ball up, but prefered the faster flipper, reputed to be his own invention. He relied on accuracy, length, flight and spin to tease the batsmen and lure them into mistakes. He bowled with his cap on through habit (and in part to conceal his baldness). Despite his late debut at 33, Grimmett went on to become the first bowler to take 200 Test wickets (and is still the fastest to reach that mark in terms of numbers of Tests played). He had the reputation of being particularly effective against tail-enders. He had many memorable performances, notably in the final Test at Sydney in the 1924-25 Ashes wherein he bamboozled the English batsmen in a fine exhibition of accurate wrist spin bowling. He was inexplicably dropped by the selectors after Australia's successful 1935-36 tour in South Africa and never again played for Australia, even though he had taken 10, 13 and 10 wickets in his last three Tests and set a record of 44 wickets in the series. His age possibly counted against him when he was again overlooked for the 1938 Ashes series, but two years later at the age of 49 he set a record by taking 73 wickets in the Australian season. He was particularly effective when bowling in tandem with Bill O'Reilly, one of the great bowling pairs whose styles complimented each other perfectly. O'Reilly wrote of him "...Grimmett never insisted on spin as his chief means of destruction. To him it was no more than an important adjunct to unerring length and direction... Grimmett was perhaps the best and most consistently active cricket thinker I ever met" (DL and Ashok Sridharan |
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